The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an organization funded by our wonderful government and they are diligent scientists that record everything there is to record having to do with water and weather in the US. The department I'm really excited about is the automated buoy information system. There are self sustained weather stations with solar powered accelerometers and computers that record and keep track of the movement of the water.
This recorded data is then sent by satellite back to home base and is actually posted on their website every 10 minutes!!! Wicked cool!!! The information that is recorded is ridiculously in depth too, the best parts are the height of the swells, the length of the period between swells, the water and air direction, water and air temps, et cetera. Check it out, there's even an RSS feed!
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